STATUE DE BOUDDHA SHAKYAMUNI EN BRONZE

CAMBODGE, KHMER, STYLE D'ANGKOR VAT, XIIEME-XIIIEME SIECLE

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STATUE DE BOUDDHA SHAKYAMUNI EN BRONZE
CAMBODGE, KHMER, STYLE D'ANGKOR VAT, XIIEME-XIIIEME SIECLE
Représenté debout en samabhanga, placé sur une base devant une mandorle, les mains en abhayamudra, vêtu d'un samghati, paré de bijoux, le visage serein, coiffé d'une tiare
Hauteur: 38 cm. (15 in.)

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From a German private collection, acquired in the 1980's

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A BRONZE FIGURE OF BUDDHA SHAKYAMUNI
CAMBODIA, KHMER, ANGKOR VAT STYLE, 12TH/13TH CENTURY

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Giulia Cuturi

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拍品专文

Early representations of Buddha Shakyamuni in human form generally depict him without any ornamentation as he had renounced the worldly values of wealth and beauty for spiritual perfection. With the rise of the Vajrayana form of Buddhism from the 10th century onwards in Indian Bihar and Bengal, the transcendental Buddha lavishly adorned with jewellery and crowns became more popular. During the 11th and 12th centuries this iconographic type received many followers in Southeast Asia. It became tremendously popular in the Khmer empire covering present day Cambodia and large parts of Thailand.

The severeness of the face, the elongated body and the 'do-not-fear' gestures displayed by both hands are common for the Angkor types.